Proverbs 28 - 29; Psalm 60; Romans 16

If I don’t stay soft I’ll scream….and scream and scream…If I don’t stay soft I’ll start thinking I KNOW much more than I really DO KNOW and in the hardness that comes there….I’ll just……I don’t know I just know that the wanting to harden up is not the same as armoring up….is not something You desire for me…is not where I need to be no matter how freakin good it would feel……but the being soft takes a lot of WORK. It takes making choices that are totally counter-intuitive to the ones I WANT to make…..it takes vulnerability and nakedness when all I want to do is HIDE….put on my longest turtleneck and just hide inside it….Like a damn turtleneck is gonna protect me….I am feeling crazy and wondering if this is what it looks like from here on out…….and yet in the crazy, is more comfort and joy than I have ever experienced.

Things that make you go Hmmmmm….
Proverbs 28: 1 The wicked are edgy with guilt, ready to run off even when no one's after them; Honest people are relaxed and confident, bold as lions.
Pr. 28: 9 God has no use for the prayers of the people who won't listen to him.
Pr. 28: 14 A tenderhearted person lives a blessed life; a hardhearted person lives a hard life.
Pr. 28: 25 A grasping person stirs up trouble, but trust in God brings a sense of well-being. 26 If you think you know it all, you're a fool for sure; real survivors learn wisdom from others.
Proverbs 29: 18 If people can't see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.
Pr. 29: 25 The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in God protects you from that.

Psalm 60: 11-12 Give us help for the hard task; human help is worthless. In God we'll do our very best; he'll flatten the opposition for good.

Romans 16: 17-18 One final word of counsel, friends. Keep a sharp eye out for those who take bits and pieces of the teaching that you learned and then use them to make trouble. Give these people a wide berth. They have no intention of living for our Master Christ. They're only in this for what they can get out of it, and aren't above using pious sweet talk to dupe unsuspecting innocents.
25-26 All of our praise rises to the One who is strong enough to make you strong, exactly as preached in Jesus Christ, precisely as revealed in the mystery kept secret for so long but now an open book through the prophetic Scriptures. All the nations of the world can now know the truth and be brought into obedient belief, carrying out the orders of God, who got all this started, down to the very last letter.
27 All our praise is focused through Jesus on this incomparably wise God! Yes!

So taking these and armoring up is IS way different from hardening up…..I DO want to be soft Father to BE a woman who LOVES….seems maybe that’s what You want as well???